Cecil Sparks is a cannonade of creative chaos who never internalized the adage about playing with fire.
Celeste Cielo (Christine Janak) is a yoga instructor and performance artist specializing in hoop dance, fan veils, fire hoop, fire fans, and fire eating. She has performed and taught at private events and festivals and danced on stage with the band Sun Stereo throughout the Midwest and beyond for 12+ years. She offers an LED light show or fire show to light up the night at your event, or she can bring along her enormous pile of hula hoops for an interactive circus party great for kids and adults alike! You can join her for weekly yoga classes at Hatha Yoga & Fitness in Champaign, as well as hoop dance, inversions, and arm balances workshops at Defy Gravity Pole Fitness & Aerial Arts Studio in Urbana.
Jeto Gingersnaps was born of a conspiracy of birds. Arriving on this plane fully formed, they stumbled onto the stage and have since spent over a decade performing with several local troupes.
Neonium began her flow arts journey in 2017, after seeing a hypnotizing leviwand fire performance at a street festival. Although leviwand is her first love, she has since expanded her performance repertoire into silk fans and fire fans and continues to explore any prop she can get her hands on. Neonium believes that everyone should have the chance to fall into the flow and enjoys teaching intro to leviwand and intro to silk fans classes. In addition to LED and fire flow props, Neonium teaches aerial silks and hammock classes at Defy Gravity Pole Fitness & Aerial Arts Studio and is a member of the performing troupe Carnivale Debauche.
Zizia (she/her) is a pole artist and performer based in CU, whose self-taught pole journey began in 2008. She joined Defy Gravity in Urbana as a student in 2017, and began instructing in 2019. A lover of the absurd, dramatic, and sensual, you can find her slithering her way from floor to ceiling across stages in CU and around the Midwest.